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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 25, 2005.

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Date	Process	Result
November 8, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
July 5, 2010	Featured article review	Demoted

Current status: Former featured article

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Timeline Template is Inaccessible as Graphical Info

The "Timeline" portion of the article is a graphic, which makes it impossible for those who cannot process graphics -- in particular, the blind and partially sighted, for text-in-graphics tends to become less clear the larger the graphic is displayed -- to obtain the information contained in the Timeline.

use of this template should be discontinued and replaced by actual text contained in a timeline whose layout is controlled by CSS oedipus (talk) 22:46, 8 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A challenge! Did you mean something like this, using Template:Graphical timeline rather than Wikipedia:EasyTimeline:

Old timeline

New timeline

John Vanbrugh timeline

1660 —

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1690 —

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1730 —

1664 - Baptised in London on 24 January

1665 - Family moves to Chester

1681 - with London wine merchant

1683 - May, leaves for India

1685 - August, returns from India

1686 - Army commission

1688 - Arrested at Calais; “Glorious Revolution”

1692 - Transferred to the Bastille

1693 - Returns to England

1694 - Naval battle at Camaret Bay

1696 - Première of “The Relapse”

1697 - Première of “The Provoked Wife”

1698 - Jeremy Collier's “Short View” published

1699 - First architectural commission, Castle Howard

1702 - Appointed comptroller of the Royal Works

1703 - Work starts on Haymarket Theatre

1705 - Work starts at Blenheim Palace

1708 - Sells Haymarket Theatre

1709 - Main structure of Castle Howard completed

1712 - Work at Blenheim stops; Vanbrughs into exile

1714 - Queen Anne dies; Vanbrughs return

1715 - Work at Blenheim resumes

1717 - Vanbrugh leaves Blenheim after final quarrel

1718 - Work starts on Seaton Delaval Hall

1719 - Marries Henrietta Maria Yarborough

1722 - Blenheim Palace completed

1723 - Knighted by King George I

1726 - Dies “of asthma” at Whitehall on 26 March

1728 - Unfinished play published by Colley Cibber

I can see that having this as text (rather than as a graphic) is an improvement, but it is a bit bigger and doesn't seem to want to start with the lower years (1664) at the top. No doubt this can be improved to use sidebars to show at a glance when he was in India or France, or working on various projects. There are some other examples, such as Template:Joan of Arc graphical timeline. -- Ferma (talk) 19:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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